Rabbi Seymour Essrog, a leader of Jewish affairs in the Baltimore area and on the national stage, died last Friday. According to several sources, Essrog was diagnosed recently with prostate cancer and was beginning chemotherapy treatment, but no details about his death are yet available.
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